Events

Monday, September 26, 2011 (8)

Sep 26, 2011
September 1, 2011
Thursday

  • LOVE CRIME directed by Alain Corneau

  • Sep 1, 2011 to Sep 30, 2011
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza and Landmark Sunshine Theatres
  • Description: LOVE CRIME is a remorseless tale of extreme office politics, played brilliantly by Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier. Isabelle (Sagnier) is the young ingénue assistant, while Christine (Scott Thomas) is the older woman, a senior executive in a multinational company doing deals around the world. At first they are friendly. Christine, the able executive, is happy to pass the grunt work along to the up-and-coming Isabelle as she learns the ropes. But when Christine starts to take credit for Isabelle's ideas, and a fellow worker bee begins to fuel Isabelle's growing doubts about Christine's duplicitous "all-for-one" attitude, the ground is prepared for all out war. LOVE CRIME is a complex, mischievous, surprising and ultimately devastating look on the corporate world, a last magical effort from one of the world's most loved directors.
  • Created by: Aimee Morris
September 13, 2011
Tuesday

  • French Born Artist, Christian Perez de Carvasal, Featured in NYC Exhibition

  • Sep 13, 2011 at 7:00am to Oct 4, 2011 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Agora Gallery
  • Description:

    Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature French artist, Christian Perez de Carvasal, in The Rhythm of Color. The exhibition is scheduled to run from September 13, 2011 through October 4, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 2011).

     

    About the Artist

    Combining symbolic elements of the figurative and the abstract, French artist Christian Perez de Carvasal creates stunning canvases that reflect all the movement and energy intrinsic to city life. Inspired by a childhood in Paris, the artist paints sprawling scenes highlighting the majesty of modern architecture and the dynamism of crowded sidewalks and streets. Yet interspersed amid his urban landscapes are peaceful humanlike creatures which serve in juxtaposition to the harried pace that commonly defines city life. He explains, “I am inspired by urban life, people in motion, architecture, and colors. My mission is to provoke emotional and political reflections and visual expressions.”

     

    One of the hallmarks of Carvasal’s work is his us

  • Created by: Lee Eagle
September 14, 2011
Wednesday
September 18, 2011
Sunday

  • NEW YORK MON AMOUR, A VIEW OF FRENCH CINEMA BY CATHERINE VERRET VIMONT

  • Sep 18, 2011 to Oct 4, 2011
  • Location: The Furman Gallery at the Film Society of Lincoln’s Center’s Walter Reade Theatre
  • Description:

    NEW YORK MON AMOUR, A VIEW OF FRENCH CINEMA BY CATHERINE VERRET VIMONT

     

    An Exhibition of 95 Photos Taken by Catherine Verret Vimont


    As Executive Director of the French Film Office UniFrance Films USA, the leading proponent of the French film industry in the US, Catherine Verret Vimont had a unique opportunity to casually photograph many of the visiting French directors and actors. 

     

     

    NEW YORK MON AMOUR: A View of French Cinema by Catherine VerretVimont, is presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in association with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and UniFrance Films.




  • Created by: Alexandra KURKDJIAN
September 26, 2011
Monday

  • French Literature in the Making with MARC DUGAIN

  • Sep 26, 2011 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Française of NYU
  • Description: Florence Gould Event

    French Literature in the Making (in French)


    MARC DUGAIN
    Novelist; author of La Chambre des officiers; La Malédiction d’Edgar; Heureux comme Dieu en France; Une exécution ordinaire; L’Insomnie des étoiles

    in conversation with
    OLIVIER BARROT
    Writer, journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3)

    Marc Dugain was born in 1957 in Senegal, but his family moved back to France when he was 7. While still a child, Marc accompanied his grandfather on a visit to "La maison des Gueules cassées", a chateau that housed soldiers from World War I who had been victims of facial mutilations. This became the subject of Dugain’s first novel, La Chambre des officiers (1998) (The Officer’s Ward, 2003), a best seller that won some twenty literary prizes including the prestigious Prix des Libraires, Prix des Deux-Magots and Prix Roger Nimier. more on French Literature in the Making

    Presented with the additional support of Open Skies, Sofitel, Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
 

  • Act American

  • Sep 26, 2011 at 3:00pm to Nov 5, 2011 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Midtown West
  • Description: This 10 session acting workshop incorporates voice work, physical improvisation and scene study. In keeping with our mission to promote international theatre by living artists, we will draw on texts by contemporary playwrights from around the world. Students will have the choice to work on  American texts or translate their scene or monologue into English from a native language.  The class will include regular visits to international theatre events followed by discussion.  The course will culminate in a performance for theater professionals and friends.  We seek to create a diverse class that includes many different countries and languages. Our ideal student has a deep curiosity about cutting-edge international theater, a love of play, a passion for understanding the human experience and an ensemble spirit.  Limited to 20.

    Teacher: Manisha Snoyer, director Into This City International Acting School
  • Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
 

  • French Literature in the Making with MARC DUGAIN and OLIVIER BARROT

  • Sep 26, 2011 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
  • Location: La Maison Francaise of NYU
  • Description: Florence Gould Event

    French Literature in the Making (in French)

    MARC DUGAIN
    Novelist; author of La Chambre des officiers; La Malédiction d’Edgar; Heureux comme Dieu en France; Une exécution ordinaire; L’Insomnie des étoiles

    in conversation with
    OLIVIER BARROT
    Writer, journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3)

    Marc Dugain was born in 1957 in Senegal, but his family moved back to France when he was 7. While still a child, Marc accompanied his grandfather on a visit to La maison des Gueules cassées, a chateau that housed soldiers from World War I who had been victims of facial mutilations. This became the subject of Dugain’s first novel, La Chambre des officiers (1998) (The Officer’s Ward, 2003), a best seller that won some twenty literary prizes including the prestigious Prix des Libraires, Prix des Deux-Magots and Prix Roger Nimier.

    Presented with the additional support of Open Skies, Sofitel, Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
 

  • Lecture on Haiti Dance -- Monday, Sept 26th

  • Sep 26, 2011 from 3:00pm to 4:15pm
  • Location: Division of Interdisciplinary Studies (CCNY downtown campus)
  • Description: Yvonne Daniel, Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies at Smith College, and author of Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé (2005), will present a lecture titled, “Corporeal Consequences of Dancing Divinity”.
    DATE: Monday, September 26th, 2011
    TIME: 7 pm
    PLACE: New York
    FREE
    FOR MORE INFO: http://www.transcarib.org/?page_id=112
     
  • Created by: Alessandra Benedicty